George Bernard Shaw (1909)
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

HERETICS.

ORTHODOXY.

THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL: A Romance. Illustrated by W. Graham Robertson.

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

THE BALL AND THE CROSS.

GEORGE BERNARD
:: SHAW ::

By
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

NEW YORK
JOHN LANE COMPANY
MCMIX

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
JOHN LANE COMPANY

THE PLIMPTON PRESS, NORWOOD, MASS.



CONTENTS
Page
Introduction to the First Edition 5
The Problem of a Preface 7
The Irishman 17
The Puritan 24
The Progressive 53
The Critic 87
The Dramatist 114
The Philosopher 165



GEORGE BERNARD SHAW


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